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2.1Someone within an organization who anonymously betrays confidential information.

‘the company is hunting for the mole who revealed details of planned job cuts’

‘In these days of public inquiries into just about anything, perhaps the Council ought to instigate one of its own to see if the Leeds Rhinos managed to insert a mole in the Bradford planning department.’

‘A councillor who owed £640 in rent arrears has called for the town hall mole who leaked information to the newspaper to be sacked.’

‘He is a dastardly turncoat Democratic mole, who betrayed the good people of this country for purely political reasons.’

‘All it takes is a leaked print of a film from a studio mole, or an advance copy from an Academy Award screener, or a filched workprint, and you have a pirated version ready to download.’

‘For £50,000 we will finger moles within your organisation.’

‘There must be a few liberal moles toiling anonymously inside the conservative news channel who can smuggle these things to the outside world, right?’

‘When we were in California last week, a mole told us that nothing upsets marketers more than revealing the real names of computer chips.’

‘It turned out that a mole within texted out the decision while the committee was still locked in discussion.’

‘Campaigners against the arms trade have accused their own chief paid organiser of being a mole secretly working on behalf of their opponents.’

‘The film was made after one of the BNP's Bradford organisers, Andy Sykes, decided to become a mole and helped reporter Jason Gwynne secure undercover footage.’

‘One of Asymmetrical Information's moles forwards this item from Businessweek.’

‘Not being originally of the community, the mole cannot really betray.’

‘I've been out in the trenches but my moles have kept me informed of all the relevant footy gossip as we approach finals time again.’

‘After all, if the mole was leaking information to hit men, then that was a potential risk to Harmony's safety, wasn't it?’

‘The combative Canadian businessman summarily ejected him from the board, blackening his character as a mole and provider of information to the tabloid press.’

‘I've good reason to believe there's a mole in our organization.’

‘A secret dossier from my mole in the company revealed a number of new spots, as well as old favourites, that I had missed on previous visits.’

‘By filling the government ranks with low-level corporate moles, the plan will make the corruption of government even easier.’

‘We knew that the opposition had a mole in our organization, but no one ever suspected that Albert was involved.’

‘But he didn't just quit, instead he became a mole at the heart of the movement, passing information to the anti-Fascist media.’

Origin

Late Middle English: from the Germanic base of Middle Dutch and Middle Low German mol.